I have to apologize...

This trip has been great, but extremely busy. We leave the hotel at about 7:30 in the morning and get back about 11 PM. I have had great intentions of blogging but seriously have not had time. Trust me that it has been a great trip. We will see you all in the morning!

Videos

Challenge is posting the videos of the speakers sessions on their vimeo page.  We have also taken some short videos to give a picture of what we have been up to.

Propoganda has been bringing some great messages, including this one from Tuesday morning.

Kristian Stanfill and his band sing one of their new songs that they haven't even recorded yet.

This is the view of the worksite we worked on.  We gutted the front room (the final room the video shows) and then cleared an enormous pile of rubble and tree branches from the back yard that make up the pile that you see in the end of the video.

Some pictures from days 1 & 2.

Group Picture before departing Milwaukee.

So fun watching the sun rise over the clouds while we were in the air.

Megan is only in pictures if they are with me since she tends to be the one behind the camera.

The whole group minus photographer at a restaurant on the shores of the Mississippi for lunch on Sunday.  For appetizers we had fried alligator sausage, fried dill pickles and calamari.  Four of us were feeling brave and got a Po Boy sandwich and the rest hit up the the burgers and chicken sandwiches.

The girl students on the ferry across the river to our work site on Monday afternoon.

The view of New Orleans from the ferry.  The next pictures our from our worksite.  We ended up clearing an enormous pile of rubble and completely gutting the front room.  

Looking Back at Day 1

Hey guys,

This is the first time I have had anytime to open my computer on the trip.  The word of the day for Sunday was long.  We woke up at 3:30 AM to get ready to load up.  We left church at 4:00 AM and with the help of Jack McCloskey and Roger Johnson made our flight in perfect time.  Our connecting flight went through Atlanta.  We all were pretty hungry and went out into the airport to get food.  Megan and I had spotted Kristian Stanfill and his band in the airport so we figured that meant we were sharing a flight.  When we landed, Megan took a paparazi shot of him.

We then got on a bus and headed towards the city.  The bus had some gospel music blaring and we got to our hotel about 12:30.  We couldn't get to our rooms yet so we dropped our stuff and headed our for some lunch.  We made the long walk to the convention center to register.  It's about 3/4 a mile to the convention center and the convention center itself is a mile long.  The first session started about 7.  It was an awesome first night.  Francis Chan spoke on the supremacy of Christ and that all things were made through Him and for Him (the message will be on the web at some point and I will link it).  We closed out the night with 6000+ people singing How Great Thou Art/How Great is Our God.  I will get some more pictures up tonight.  We have had some awesome discussions as a group.  It's been a sweet time so far.

Day 1 Content Coming...

Hey all,

I am at a meeting right now where they referenced yesterday as they day that never ends. It was long. Starting at 3:30 am and ending at midnight. It's been pretty awesome so far. I'll get an update with more details, videos and pictures this afternoon. Thanks much!

Here is a video of what we are joining in on.

Challenge Promo Video